Army Corps Defends Enbridge Energy Minnesota Pipeline Review

The Army Corps of Engineers told a Washington, D.C., federal court that it did its diligence on the impacts of Enbridge Energy’s Minnesota pipeline project on the climate, wetlands, and low-income communities.

Air quality and greenhouse gas emissions impacts would be “negligible to minor,” according to the agency’s filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The large majority of the project’s wetland impacts will be temporary, the Corps said in its Wednesday filing, and mitigation will help “compensate for the small amount of loss of aquatic resource function.”

Environmental and tribal groups argue the Corps’ review ...